Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: Update documentation for RCU-protected actions.

2014-07-15 Thread Joe Stringer
On 15 July 2014 19:19, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff > > s/quiesce period/quiescent period/ in two places though. > Thanks, I made this adjustment and applied the patch to master. ___ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.or

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: Update documentation for RCU-protected actions.

2014-07-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:04:52PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote: > The userspace datapath returns RCU-protected actions from flow_get() and > flow_dump_next(). This doesn't cause any trouble for current users of > these functions, but it imposes additional constraints on their use. > This patch makes

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: Update documentation for RCU-protected actions.

2014-07-14 Thread Joe Stringer
The userspace datapath returns RCU-protected actions from flow_get() and flow_dump_next(). This doesn't cause any trouble for current users of these functions, but it imposes additional constraints on their use. This patch makes the dpif documentation more explicit about how the results of these fu